ISBW #114 – Feedback
mightymur | 2009/04/08 | 5 comments
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Show Notes:
- I’m doing a new thing with War – subscribe to the premium feed at the Heaven site!
- Promo: Dice Jockies
- You must check out the new interactive storytelling site, Storytron!
- David Moldawer and I are running a beginning writer workshop at Balticon this year!
- Create your own ebooks at Smashwords.com, you can also place your work at Scribd.com and Fictionpress.
- For scriptwriting, Celtx 2.0 was just released.
- I say I dont know where to get feedback on queries, but since this recording, Nathan Bransford has started the Be An Agent For A Day contest that you can submit to and have other authors look at your queries.
- Promo: French Quarter Hustle
- I’m going to start asking for feedback opinions from other podcast novelists, and the first is about character deaths from JC Hutchins, author of 7th Son and the upcoming novel, Personal Effects: Dark Art
(pre-order now! You know you want to…)
- Let’s cheer on Carrie with her novel in the comments!
- The Book, a project portal
- We hear from a listener who got to see Mary Jo Pehl in Cinematic Titanic live! *jealous*
- Dead Robots Society on Create Space.
- I endorse, again, the Online Writer’s Workshop.
- I mention Viable Paradise and Clarion as good workshops for SF writers.
- More writing software: Write Room.
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Category: Audio, I Should Be Writing, Projects
Celtx has served me quite well. It’s an amazing way to keep my ideas from spreading out all over my laptop. I’ve been using it in conjunction with Freemind to keep events in order and sketch out the sort of ponderous plot lines I dream up. Have you played around with mind mapping software before?
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
I seem to be having trouble with the Murverse feed. I keep getting that black exclamation thing in iTunes, and un-then-resubscribing hasn’t fixed it. Is anyone else having this issue?
Submitting simultaneously when one of the markets requests first rights is asking for trouble. When more than one market accepts the work, they’re not going to work around each other’s schedules, so it could be that the other market takes the first rights the first market actually wanted. Be patient and get the first market out of the way before submitting to the second one (either way, the second would need to accept reprints.
Addition to previous post: One time rights do not give rise to such problems but you should make sure that whoever gets the second bit accepts the reprint.
For the person who is looking for feedback on their query:
1) The AbsoluteWrite forums have loads of people who are happy to critique query letters. A lot of the members have experience writing them, and some also received some and can give info from the other side.
2) Query Shark (@blogspot.com) Completely dedicated to query letters.
3) Evil Editor (also blogspot) An editor with a bit of a snarky tone, but provides useful feedback too. These query comments come with a couple of fake plots so the reader can guess what your novel is about based on the title.